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  2. Universal causation - Wikipedia

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    John Stuart Mill describes the Law of Universal Causation in following way: . Every phenomenon has a cause, which it invariably follows; and from this are derived other invariable sequences among the successive stages of the same effect, as well as between the effects resulting from causes which invariably succeed one another.

  3. Causality - Wikipedia

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    Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is at least partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is at least partly dependent on the cause. [1]

  4. Causal reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Causal reasoning is the process of identifying causality: the relationship between a cause and its effect.The study of causality extends from ancient philosophy to contemporary neuropsychology; assumptions about the nature of causality may be shown to be functions of a previous event preceding a later one.

  5. Correlation does not imply causation - Wikipedia

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    Reverse causation or reverse causality or wrong direction is an informal fallacy of questionable cause where cause and effect are reversed. The cause is said to be the effect and vice versa. Example 1 The faster that windmills are observed to rotate, the more wind is observed. Therefore, wind is caused by the rotation of windmills.

  6. Occasionalism - Wikipedia

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    In response to the philosophers' claim that the created order is governed by secondary efficient causes (God being, as it were, the Primary and Final Cause in an ontological and logical sense), Ghazali argues that what we observe as regularity in nature based presumably upon some natural law is actually a kind of constant and continual ...

  7. Causality (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Causality is the relationship between causes and effects. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While causality is also a topic studied from the perspectives of philosophy and physics, it is operationalized so that causes of an event must be in the past light cone of the event and ultimately reducible to fundamental interactions .

  8. List of Talmudic principles - Wikipedia

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    A law is de'oraita (Aramaic: דאורייתא, "of the Torah," i.e. scriptural) if it was given with the written Torah. A law is derabbanan (Aramaic: דרבנן, "of our rabbis," Rabbinic) if it is ordained by the rabbinical sages. [1] The concepts of de'oraita and derabbanan are used extensively in Jewish law.

  9. Grama (halacha) - Wikipedia

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    A grama (Talmudic Aramaic: גרמא) in Halacha (Jewish law) is something that was indirectly [1] caused by something else but which outcome is not guaranteed.. A classic example given to this is of vases that are filled with water and put around a fire in order to extinguish it.